Shoulder-brace and corset



- (ModeL) 0. A. WILLIAMSON.

SHOULDER BRAUE AND CORSET.

Patented May 2, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

OATHARINE WILLIAMSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SHOULDER-BRACE AND CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,261, dated May 2, 1882.

Application filed October 29, 1881.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, UATHARINE A. WIL- LIAMSON, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Combined Shoulder-Brace and Corset, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, in which the improvement is shown in position.

A prominent feature of the present construction is the corset and shoulder-brace in combination, as shown. The improvement also relates to the mode of connecting the two parts of the garment at the back and to the arm-pieces, in combination with the corset.

Referring to the drawing, A A represent the two parts of the corset, and which, so far as the sides ac and frontu. are concerned, are of the usual description. In place, however, of having but a single lacing at the back, there are two lacings, B B, and between the lacings is an elastic connection, 0, which serves to connect the parts A A, and which is preferably in the form of a series, 0 c c, of elastic ties, spaced apart, as shown.

Above the ties 0 c c an inelastic tie, 1), may be used to unite the partsA A. So far as the corset feature of the garment is concerned, that portion of the garment immediatelybetween the ties c 0 D and the lacings B B may be of any form suitable for uniting the ties and lacings; but I utilize the spaces in question by inserting in them the supports or staysE E of the shoulder-brace feature of the garment, the supports in question being flat, elastic, and preferably perforated strips, preferably of steel extendingat each side of the spine upward upon the shoulder above the corset proper and below the lower edge of the corset proper, and being suitably incased or held in the garment (Modem at the places in question-that is, the corset proper at each side is laced to the supports, or to the casings containing the supports, and they inturn are united by an elastic connection.

F F represent arm-pieces extending from the upper part of the suppoi ts E E over the shoulders and around underneath thearms of the wearer, and thence back to the supports E E, having an adjustable connectiomff, therewith. The arm-pieces are wholly or partially elastic.

The present construction can be modified by putting a single lacing at the center of the back of the garment, where the ties c are now arranged, and inserting two el'astic connections in the present places of the lacings.

I claim-' 1. The combination of the corset parts A A, the lacings B B, the flat elastic supports or stays E E, extending upward above and downward below the corset proper, and the elastic connection 0, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the corset parts A A, the lacings B B, the flat elastic supports or stays E E, and the elastic connection 0 and inelastic connection D, said stays extending upward and downward, as described, and at each side of the spine, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the corset parts A A, lacings B B, flat elastic supports or stays E E, extendingupwardanddownward,asdescribed, elastic connection (3, inelastic connection D, and the wholly or partially elastic arm-pieces F F, substantially as described.

Witness my hand.

0. A. WILLIAMSON.

Witnesses:

OnAs D. MOODY, ANNIE M. WILLIAMSON. 

